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JOHN SINGER SARGENT (1856-1925)

Lot 23
05.03.2026 00:00UTC +00:00
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ID 1548951
Lot 23 | JOHN SINGER SARGENT (1856-1925)
Estimate value
£ 3 000 000 – 5 000 000
JOHN SINGER SARGENT (1856-1925)
Study for 'Carnation, Lily, Lily, Rose'
oil on canvas
28 ¾ x 18 ½ in. (73 x 47 cm.)
Painted in 1885




Provenance

Lily Millet, Broadway, Worcestershire, probably a gift from the artist, and until at least 1926.
Charles Kinderman, London, by 1929; sale, Sotheby's, London, 10 June 1942, lot 87.
Oakley, by whom acquired at the above sale.
Anonymous sale, Sotheby's, London, 16 December 1942, lot 147.
R.E.A. Wilson, London, by whom acquired at the above sale.
Major C.G. Nicholson, Victoria, British Columbia, by 1944, and thence by descent in 1959.
Johannes P. E. Klaverwyden, Victoria, British Columbia.
Private collection.
Adelson Galleries, New York, 1998.
Acquired from the above by Carol and Terry Wall in January 1999.



Literature

(probably) W.H. Downes, John S. Sargent: His Life and Work, London, 1926, p. 306 (as one of 'Two Studies for 'Carnation, Lily, Lily, Rose').
E. Charteris, John Sargent, London, 1927, p. 283.
C.M. Mount, John Singer Sargent: A Biography, New York,1955, no. K851, p. 455.
C.M. Mount, John Singer Sargent: A Biography, New York, 1969, p. 465 (as 'Sketches for Carnation, Lily, Lily, Rose, no. 1').
W. Adelson, S. Olson & R. Ormond, Sargent at Broadway: The Impressionist Years, New York, 1986, p. 68 (illustrated p. 69, fig. 45; titled 'Study of Dorothy Barnard for Carnation, Lily, Lily, Rose').
M. Simpson, Reconstructing the Golden Age: American Artists in Broadway, Worcestershire, 1885 to 1889, New Haven, 1993, pp. 333 & 334 (illustrated fig. 118).
D. Davis, The Secret Life of Frames: One Hundred Years of Art and Artistry, New York, 2007, pp. 212 & 213 (illustrated).
A. Syme, A Touch of Blossom: John Singer Sargent and the Queer Flora of Fin-De-Siècle Art, Philadelphia, 2010, p. 158 (illustrated p. 160, fig. 143).
R. Ormond & E. Kilmurray, John Singer Sargent, vol. V, Figures and Landscapes, 1883-1899, New Haven, 2010, no. 875, pp. 101, 127, 139 & 345 (illustrated p. 139).



Exhibited

London, The Royal Academy of Arts, Exhibition of Works by the Late John S. Sargent, R.A., January - March 1926, no. 416, p. 63.
London, National Gallery, Millbank, Opening of Sargent Gallery, June - October 1926.
Victoria, British Columbia, Art Gallery of Greater Victoria, 1968.
Huntington, Heckscher Museum of Art, The Golden Age of American Impressionism, November 2003 - February 2004, p. 52 (illustrated pl. 17, p. 53).
Boston, Museum of Fine Arts, Sargent, Chase, and Cassatt: Master Paintings from a Private Collection, July - September 2006.
Stockholm, Nationalmuseum, John Singer Sargent, October 2018 - January 2019, p. 39 (illustrated p. 38).
Montclair Art Museum, A Shared Love: Treasures of American Painting (1878-1919) from the Carol and Terry Wall Collection, May 2024 - February 2025.
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